Re: SSHd configuration problems (System error 1376)

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/23/2014 8:41 AM, Ilya Dogolazky wrote:
> Hi Ken !
>
> 12/13/2014 02:30 PM, ext Ken Brown ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>
> > admingroup=$(/usr/bin/mkgroup -l | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{if ( $2 ==
> > "S-1-5-32-544" ) print $1;}')
>
> > On my system this yields "Administrators".  Apparently it yields "root"
> > on your system.  Any idea why?
>
> I have the same error message as PolarStorm:
> "Adding user 'cyg_server' to local group 'root' failed!"
>
> But when I execute the mkgroup+awk (as above) command I receive "Administrators"
>
> Even more: the output of the "mkgroup -l" command doesn't contain the string
> "root" at all. So I believe the statement "group is obtained in line ..." can't
> be quite true. The script finds the word "root" from somewhere, but surely not
> from that mkgroup+awk command.
>
> PS I'm trying to run sshd on a fresh installed "Windows 8.1 Enterprise N" system
> with fresh installed cygwin64.

csih has been updated.  The group is now obtained as follows, in lines 2969-2970:

      admingroup=$(/usr/bin/getent group S-1-5-32-544)
      admingroup="${admingroup%%:*}"

This still yields "Administrators" on my system.  I'm using the test release of 
cygwin in case that's relevant.

Ken

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